The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences
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J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci · Jan 2000
Review Historical ArticleSurgical treatment of mental illness: impact of imaging.
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The authors review posttraumatic headache (PTH). The most common symptom following head injury, PTH is paradoxically most severe after mild head injury. ⋯ Often PTH affects family life, recreation, and employment. Patients require education and support as well as appropriate evaluation and treatment.
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J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci · Jan 1993
ReviewNeurobiology and sexual orientation: current relationships.
Despite great progress in the neurosciences, our understanding of the determinants of sexual orientation is incomplete. The authors review for the clinician/neuropsychiatrist studies pertaining to the formation of sexual orientation in the following areas: hormone effects on sexual behavior (animal and human); the complicated relationship between gender identity, gender role, and sexual orientation in humans; cross-cultural studies of homosexuality; behavioral observations in pseudohermaphrodites and offspring of mothers treated with hormones during pregnancy; brain studies of homosexual and heterosexual individuals; and genetic studies. The authors conclude that human sexual orientation is complex and diversely experienced and that a biopsychosocial model best fits the current state of knowledge in the field.
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J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci · Jan 1990
ReviewCurrent research in affective disorders following stroke.
The prevalence, diagnosis, clinical presentation, evolution, and treatment of depression and mania following stroke are discussed. Among the many studies presented in the review is one that indicates major depression following right hemisphere lesions is associated with a positive family history of psychiatric disorder and lesions involving the parietal cortex. ⋯ A recent study has also shown a strong association between mania and direct or indirect dysfunction of the basotemporal cortex in the right hemisphere. Possible mechanisms for both mania and depression following stroke are presented, and ideas for future directions in research are suggested.